Queen Elizabeth
She won’t be celebrating Christmas in Sandringham
After last year, Queen Elizabeth will probably have to keep her distance from the thousands of onlookers after the Christmas service in 2021.
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News about the British Royals in the GALA ticker: She will not celebrate Christmas in Sandringham +++ Duchess Camilla presents hidden treasures from the Queen’s home +++ Queen Elizabeth will probably have to give up her beloved Christmas tradition.
News about the royals in the GALA ticker
December 20, 2021
Queen Elizabeth does not celebrate Christmas in Sandringham
After Queen Elizabeth, 95, canceled the traditional Christmas dinner with the family last week, according to British media reports, “with regret” and as a “precautionary measure”, there is now more sad news about Christmas for the British royals: Like Royal Editor Emily Nash announced via Twitter that the Queen will not celebrate Christmas as planned in Sandringham but at Windsor Castle. It is a personal decision of the Queen.
Duchess Camilla reveals secrets of Windsor Castle
In the coming year, Duchess Camilla, 74, will present the “Treasures of Windsor Castle” to the public for the first time in a multi-part Instagram series with the help of knowledgeable experts. “Noteworthy objects” are being scrutinized, according to an announcement on the official channel of her virtual “Reading Room”, which she launched in 2020 for literature enthusiasts at the beginning of the pandemic.
A first trailer shows how Camilla looks at a 580 year old book up close – but without the white protective gloves that are often seen when antiquities are examined more closely. For this supposed faux pas, however, there is an immediate explanation: “You ask about white gloves?” Says the comment on the video. “Many scholars and academics today consider clean hands to be the best thing to do when handling valuable books, as cloth or latex gloves can make the wearer clumsy.” So Camilla did everything right.
Queen Elizabeth is expected to cancel traditional family walk
A grueling and sad year lies behind Queen Elizabeth, 95, and a conciliatory end seems further and further afield. Now the monarch will probably not only have to cancel her traditional pre-Christmas lunch with the family, but also the family walk on December 25th to the Christmas service in St. Mary Magdalene Church in Sandringham.
The Queen and her advisors fear that the omicron variant of the coronavirus, which is spreading at breakneck speed in Great Britain, could spread through the public appearance of the family among thousands of onlookers, who appear every year, and also among the royals themselves. Although the royal estate Sandringham will not be completely cordoned off, as the “Mirror” reports, the famous footpath to the church is expected to be fenced off.
On December 25, 2019, Prince Charles, Duchess Catherine, Prince William and Co. came together for the last time for the traditional Christmas walk.
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